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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev told a session of the Foreign Investors Council on December 4 that China had asked to lease 1 million hectares of Kazakh farm land.Nazarbaev said at the foreign investors meeting that China asked the Kazakh government to provide land for soybean and rapeseed cultivation. Chinese expert Murat Auezov told RFE/RL he is worried that China's proposal is fueled by "a desire to come to this land." Auezov said a positive decision by the Kazakh government in favor of China could lead to the "Chinese colonization of Kazakhstan."
He said this agricultural project would encourage the mass migration of Chinese people to Kazakhstan and added that government officials should deal with China "carefully."
"This is a project that requires the migration of many people. Who will grow the crops? Who will harvest and prepare it? Who will get it ready for sale?" Auezov said. "We know what the strategic aims of China are, and how China can use any kind of terminology to achieve its goals." And Auezov had some candid comments on China's methods of doing business.
"The Chinese are masters in the art of bribery on different levels. But what kind of China asks Kazakhstan to make available 1.2 million hectares of land to grow soybeans?" Auezov said. "This is the China that gave Kazakhstan $10 billion in credit during one of the [Kazakh] president's recent trips."
Auezov also noted a border demarcation agreed upon by the two countries at the end of the 1990s. Kazakhstan inherited from the Soviet Union 34,000 square kilometers of "disputed" territory claimed by China.
After several years of talks, both sides concluded a deal that was unpopular with many in Kazakhstan at the time.
"When they defined the disputed territory," Auezov said, "it was important for the Chinese to take the strategic high ground and leave the Kazakh border guards down in the lowlands. And when [Kazakh authorities] told the people that Kazakhstan did not lose one meter of land and even gained 51 percent [more land], they were referring to all this territory that was disputed -- not one meter of it on the Chinese side of the border, all of it on our side. But this division of 51 percent turned out to mean that from our previous 100 percent the Chinese took 49 percent."
"If this question is decided in favor of the proposal from China," he continued, "then it will be the very colonization of Kazakhstan. And we're not talking about one region but across a wide front."
В принципе, сейчас прямого насилия мы не испытываем. Никто не может сказать, что русские или китайцы пришли сюда и уже вершат нашими судьбами, нет. Очень многое зависит от нашей собственной способности к мобилизации. Мы имеем страну, мы имеем государство. Но ощущение родины, единой родины - вот такая родина сейчас нам нужна.
Поэтому доктрина единого народа Казахстана должна быть предельно откровенной. Там нужно обозначить, точно сказать: вот казахи. Обозначить меру ценностей каждой пяди нашей земли, чтобы никогда предметом любых политических торгов не становился ни один квадратный метр этой земли.
Для нас история не оставляет выхода, мы должны быть очень качественным народом. Это единственное и непременное условие удержания свободы, независимости, суверенитета, достойного бытия среди других народов.
Возможности, которые сейчас нам даны, - как вероятность, шанс. Превратить эту вероятность в реальность - это наша забота, тревоги. Это наше дело, которое мы должны сделать.
From group administration: This is a disguised occupation. Palestine once rented land for 5 years to Israel. Look what happened. Israel took over the whole Palestine! Join this group if you do not want this to happen to our Kazakhstan!
